R.I. represented on 600 smartest colleges list

PROVIDENCE – While no Rhode Island institutions of higher learning made it on to Business Insider’s 104 smartest public colleges in America list, the Ocean State was better represented on the website’s 600 smartest colleges list, based on students’ average SAT scores.

On the latter list, Brown University ranked No. 22 for its average SAT score of 1435. Wheaton College ranked No. 166 with an average score of 1225. Providence College was No. 288 with an average of 1155, while Bryant University came in at No. 343 with an average of 1135. Stonehill College ranked No. 347 an average of 1130, while the University of Rhode Island and Salve Regina University tied at No. 410 with SAT scores of 1105. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ranked No. 524 for an SAT average of 1080.

Wrote Business Insider: “Schools are constantly being ranked on everything from student happiness, campus beauty, success of alums and professor prestige. But where should you go if you want to be among the most intelligent students in America?”

The website said that a Duke University Talent Identification Program researcher calculated the ranking of America’s colleges and universities “based purely on smarts, as reflected by the school’s average scores on standardized tests.”

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A total of 1,339 schools were analyzed, from which it ranked the top 600.
The top school?
California Institute of Technology, with its average an SAT score of 1545. Coming in second was the University of Chicago (SAT score of 1515) and tied for third were Ivies Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities with average SAT scores of 1505.

Read the entire list HERE .

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